It's The New Cars That Can Learn New Tricks

Japan has long been world renowned for being at the cutting edge of technology and frequently produces innovative concepts that have later filtered down into the mass-markets.This is no more apparent than in their car technology, which is often adopted all over the world and is considered second to non by many experts. They have now upped their game even further however by creating an integrated car system that uses 'intelligent technology', and it has already caught the eye of many off the car industries big hitters.

There is nothing revolutionary about a micro-chip in a car, they have in fact been used to control things like ABS and traction control for a long time now.A while ago new technology arrived on the scene that had self-monitoring abilities beyond just being able to tell how much fuel it had left or if a car door was left open. They could now report on tire pressures, chassis forces, MIL spec cables and even road surface conditions.  The company in Japan known as Copal Electronics have taken the micro chip to the next level however and using new solenoids technology developed a car that can not only look after itself but can learn. If the car is driven around a corner in the wet at 30mph for example, and the rear wheels slide out, the car will note the road surface condition, speed, tire pressures, corning angle, weight of the car and many other factors and then make very subtle changes to things such as the circuit breakers sensitivity so that the same does not happen again.

Experts have said that as the technology develops and the cars have been learning for a good few years, they will eventually be able to preempt and avoid all sorts of driving problems and accidents.We may not see it in everyday cars for a few years yet as it needs to be tested fully by manufacturers, but when it does arrive it is sure to make driving a whole lot easier.